[Amps] Lightning
Ron
w8ron@stratos.net
Thu, 18 Apr 2002 00:59:05 -0400
I have thouroughly solved both problems of lightning and rf by using my cold water pipe.
As we all know , the cold water pipe is the BEST ground that one can obtain and so I have expanded my cold water pipe to envelope my entire station. I do sometimes get comments that my signal sounds watery but I can easily pass that off as long path propagation.
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Ron
COLIN LAMB wrote:
> Since we do not fully understand lightning, nor know when or where it will strike, I propose that we treat it as a parasitic or arc over. A giant parasitic suppressor made of nichrome wire and tuned to perhaps 5 Hz. may reduce damage to house grids. This would be shunted with a 10,000 watt, .1 ohm resistor. Installing a current limiting resistor might also help. I am not quite sure of the value, but I suggest a .01 ohm, 100,000 watt resistor for starters. This could limit lightning current and reduce the velocity of the parts exploding from the new Ten-Tec Orion.
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> I had thought about reducing attraction of lightning by using underground half wave antennas - but that may not help. The voltage developed between the two half waves - even underground may be substantial. Perhaps the preferred solution is to elevate everything and power from a source other than the mains. A solar powered station on some lawn chairs supported by numerous weather balloons may solve the lightning problem.
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